r/JRPG • u/Marinebiologist_0 • Apr 27 '25

News Clair Obscur has achieved the highest concurrent player rate ever for a JRPG on Steam.

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Incredible numbers, this doesn't even include the Xbox Gamepass player count. The last time I remember a JRPG getting this level of attention was Persona 5 and NieR Automata in 2017. It'll be interesting to see how massive Persona 6 will be, if it launches day 1 on all major platforms.

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u/AverageGuilty6171 Apr 27 '25

See JRPG developers, all you have to do is not be Japanese!

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u/KuttaFrmDa3 Apr 28 '25

There may actually be some truth to this lol, it seems the Japanese (what people in this sub call “anime”) tropes, writing style and character designs are the barrier to entry for the casual audience not the turn based combat. 

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u/Uro06 Apr 30 '25 edited Apr 30 '25

Yes this is it for me. I like round based RPGs but god damn it I just can not get into anything that has Anime level writing and dialogue. Even Clair Obscur is a stretch to me since one moment you are talking about deeply philoshical and "serious" stuff and the next moment you are fighting against a street lantern. But the writing and dialogue is still more "adulty" than most of the other stuff I've tried playing. This is also why I cant get into most Anime or even live action east asian movies. The characters always act and talk so absurd and over the top and animelike and just dont behave and talk like real people do. I would love to play more JRPGs for the combat, but I just can't get into everything else